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Friday, April 8, 2011

Friday, April 8, 2011

Jen and I have been in D.C. this week to visit some friends, see the sights, and catch the plague like we do every time we leave the house. Of course, one of the best parts for me was getting to hang out with our friends' two kids, who are both as adorable as baby sloths yet have enough energy to power Detroit.

Now, we don't actually have children (unless you count the ones with claws and hairballs) but this trip has put me in a baby kind of mood. Granted, I'm as seedless as a bag of lettuce*, but indulge me, won't you?

*See also:Sterile as a box of Band-AidsFruitless as a butcher shopPulp-free

Technically, it's also of girl.

I think that's spelled "Toby."

You're right: "3 Times" was just silly. Much better to cross out the "s" with that exclamation point.

Ok, nobody panic. We're just gonna need some hot towels, a flashlight, and a low voltage car battery. And no sudden movements.

Well, our cat had kittens yesterday. But doesn't anything capable of having a baby deserve to be called "she"?Even my crayfish is a "she." (Yes, I have a pet crayfish, and, as a wreckorator might say, "It a gril.")

My little geeklet on the way is getting a knitted baby blanket, made in sections, each section replicates part of The Scarf. Grandma not only knits amazingly well, she's also fairly geeky too. She's been kind enough to show me the progress on the Scarf-blanket so far. It's deliciously geeky, and scrumptiously soft too.

Bah. You should have told me you're coming to DC. I'd love to have taken you two out to dinner. If you're still around for a couple of days and have time, let me know. Besides, I need slave labor to help me get ready for my wedding next weekend. (oh wait, did I say slave labor? I mean help, yes help!)

These were another awesome set of wrecks! I wondered though if the ! over the S was supposed to be a $, so it's like Ke$ha. How tragic would that be?

I totally think the "3 times!" is supposed to be indicating a $, not very subtly. That thought (3 times the $) would be pretty high on my list if I were expecting triplets! First on my list would be how to explain to DH since he's so kindly been snipped. LOL

It's of boy....love it!!! And is that a monkey in the last cake??? Having a baby? I dunno, I was just monkeying around and now this.... All these cakes need clown heads!!!! Sorry...still traumatized by that day's cakes......

I apparently am not geeky enough to have a clue who the dude is, so enlighten, please, fellow poster, this doofus who has no geek stripes.

wv: visheole. A small stringed instrument that is a hybrid of a viola, washboard and ukulele. "The sad clown strummed his visheole." Sorry for the nightmares this induce for some of you. Drink some warm milk.

Also, may I just say I LOVED Tom Baker as Dr. Who? (There, I said it. Though I was also quite fond of Peter Davison.)

And if I had attended a baby shower where that last cake had been served, I would have never bothered with infertility treatment. (Btw, never heard the phrase "As sterile as a box of Band-Aids" before. Nice.)

These are hilarious, but the icing on the cake (no pun intended...at least, not completely intended) is the Doctor Who reference at the end! Tom Baker's smile does kind of terrify me. Thank you so much for never failing to make me smile!!!

That last cake and the many previous baby-parts/belly cakes has led me to release a fatwa/edict/diktat declaring that if ever I were to have a children (not counting the four-legged barking kind) that there is to be no celebration of this event. Not with cake. Unless the cake only has baby carrot jockeys. Those are awesome!

There is one exception to that rule: the seahorse. With seahorses, it's the MALE that gives birth, not the female. The female transfers her eggs into the male, and then it's up to the male to bring the offsprings into the (ocean) world.

Do you think maybe the Cake Wrecks website is influencing the way people write on their cake order forms? I would predict that some people take the lesson to heart and write exceptionally clearly, double-checking their own spelling and avoiding any possibly dubious requests. But the flip side of my hypothesis is that other people have learned of the unintentional hilarity of a cake wreck, and thereby fill out their forms sloppily, with parenthetical notes, little pictures and odd line breaks, just waiting to see what the wreckerator will make of it.

Actually, Jen has one of the worst colds I've ever seen so I did this post this morning to give her a break. So we're clear, Jen does nearly every post and heavily edits anything that I or Number 1 write.

If anything suffers, it's the post frequency on EPBOT. CW is Jen's baby.

I'd write more, but Jen is coughing up a lung in the bedroom and I have to go tell her to be funny.

@Linda in Louisville -- You may have gotten it from context by now, but the fellow in the last picture is Tom Baker, who played the fourth incarnation of The Doctor in the very long running, very popular British SF series, Doctor Who.

Huh- John can't go to TX and Jen can't go to the nation's capitol...(prepares to run & hide) Two of the places in this country with the loudest blowhard populations!! (TEE HEE) Hope you both feel better soon.

I would be shocked too if a full grown person came out of me like it appears to in that last cake. Bleh. Whoever keeps making cakes like that one must really not want to have a baby lol. Must try to unsee what cannot be unseen by that evil photo alone.. nightmare city here I come.

#2 "I TOLD you we should have waited a few more weeks to order the cake!"

#3 I also vote for $. Not that I get paid to vote, but I vote for the last character being a '$'. Love that monochromatic frosting.

#4 'Molly It's Having a Baby' sounds like something from Dr. Demento's library.

#5 "I's A Boy"?! Does that bakery have a 'Ready in 10 seconds or it's free' promotion? What is going on at the top of this mess?

#6 This is at least 17 kinds of wrong, all tied for first place. My first thought was 'Curious George gets a little too curious.' But then I clicked (why did I DO that?), saw that 'baby' has eyes on the top of her (?) head and the universe made sense once more. What's with the feet? And a serious proportioning problem up top. I would have put the censor bar over the whole thing and called it a day. Thanks for the mammaries...

I'm checking in late, but still had to comment. Just wanted to say, John, that I'm glad you are keeping Jen in line. She'd better be coughing funny. Maybe the lung that comes up will resemble Tom Baker, too. Now that would be funny!

wv: entusi I love checking entusi what laughs CW has in store for me daily!

Ah -Ha!! no one else has noticed that the "bow" on No1 is actually a squid! possibly a huge giant one, or maybe a baby Kraken??The Dr is back on our screens here in the UK trailing the 6 new episodes that begin at Easter, yipee!!My eldest son and I are now looking forward to introducing his baby boy Thor-Alan to geekery ,Thunderbirds and Stingray,Dr Who, Star Trek, Star Wars...what treasures await :) and Daisies.

Well, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get my paranoid internet security guard to let me see the baby sloths! BAH!Fooey!But did it block that horrible monkey/Who baby? Or the Doctor? No. Time to get new guard.And WHY are all these "new mother" cakes adorned with strippers who have mated with alien life forms?*washing eyes* O God I still see it

Gary - kittens are great. You should really think about getting your cat spayed soon. It lowers your pets risk of cancer and also .. 4 to 5 million pets are euthanized a year because there are not enough homes. Have a great day!

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